Sunday, November 23
Thursday, November 13
Tuesday, November 11
Tuesday, May 13
The New York Times > Business > What Corporate America Can't Build: A Sentence
The New York Times > Business > What Corporate America Can't Build: A Sentence: "'E-mail is a party to which English teachers have not been invited,' Dr. Hogan said. 'It has companies tearing their hair out.'"
Saturday, May 10
Thursday, May 1
Theory of Margin
Theory of Margin: "A new area of study that has emerged from McClusky's Power-Load-Margin theory is the degree to which instructors of adults contribute to the depletion or reduction of discretionary energy (margin) in adult students. This work has been pioneered by Day and James (1984) at the University of Wyoming. In a series of interviews with adult students, they found numerous examples of instructor-generated load that they clustered into four areas: attitude, behavior, task, and environment. Examples of each are as follows:"
Tuesday, April 22
Tuesday, April 8, 2008: Monthly Program (BayCHI)
Tuesday, April 8, 2008: Monthly Program (BayCHI): "aking Amy Jo Kim�s principles to heart, it�s possible to make even the most productive social interactivities 'fun.' We already knew we could lose track of time and become immersed in our work but now we know how to help others fall into 'flow'. Kim reviews three case studies of social media � YouTube, Twitter and FaceBook -- implementing specific qualities of game mechanics."
Wednesday, April 16
Flexknowlogy � Defining “Creepy Treehouse”
Flexknowlogy � Defining “Creepy Treehouse”: "creepy treehouse
n. A place, physical or virtual (e.g. online), built by adults with the intention of luring in kids.
Example: “Kids … can see a [creepy treehouse] a mile away and generally do a good job in avoiding them.” John Krutsch in Are You Building a Creepy Treehouse?”"
n. A place, physical or virtual (e.g. online), built by adults with the intention of luring in kids.
Example: “Kids … can see a [creepy treehouse] a mile away and generally do a good job in avoiding them.” John Krutsch in Are You Building a Creepy Treehouse?”"
Ruminate � Blog Archive � I’m Not Interested in “the PLE”
Ruminate � Blog Archive � I’m Not Interested in “the PLE”
Chris Lott, who I discovered through John Krutsch.
Chris Lott, who I discovered through John Krutsch.
Wednesday, April 9
Self-employed technorati find places to network | Chron.com - Houston Chronicle
Self-employed technorati find places to network | Chron.com - Houston Chronicle: "'Rather than spending an extended period of time banging your head, the ability to shoot the question out to a room to get a response is really great,'' said Alex Hillman, who was an increasingly claustrophobic self-employed Web developer before founding IndependentsHall, a shared office space for his peers in Philadelphia."
Tuesday, April 1
Sunday, March 30
Friday, March 28
PmWiki | PmWiki / InitialSetupTasks
PmWiki | PmWiki / InitialSetupTasks: "Don't modify or rename pmwiki.php
PmWiki has been designed so that all customizations can be made without changing the distribution files -- one of its design goals is to provide seamless upgrades. PmWiki never writes to files in the local/ or cookbook/ directories, so placing your customizations here makes it easier to track the changes and upgrade PmWiki without losing the changes.
When changing the configuration of your site, always change the local/config.php file or add files to the cookbook/ or pub directories. Do not change pmwiki.php or the files in the scripts/ directory because the files are supposed to be overwritten upon upgrading.
You shouldn't rename pmwiki.php either. If you rename the file it will not be overwritten during an upgrade of the software and there will be a version mismatch. Many administrators add an index.php 'wrapper script' in the pmwiki directory that contains the following single line:
<?php include('pmwiki.php');"
Failure to heed this advice cost me a month or two of broken wiki when I upgraded and got too busy to troubleshoot.
PmWiki has been designed so that all customizations can be made without changing the distribution files -- one of its design goals is to provide seamless upgrades. PmWiki never writes to files in the local/ or cookbook/ directories, so placing your customizations here makes it easier to track the changes and upgrade PmWiki without losing the changes.
When changing the configuration of your site, always change the local/config.php file or add files to the cookbook/ or pub directories. Do not change pmwiki.php or the files in the scripts/ directory because the files are supposed to be overwritten upon upgrading.
You shouldn't rename pmwiki.php either. If you rename the file it will not be overwritten during an upgrade of the software and there will be a version mismatch. Many administrators add an index.php 'wrapper script' in the pmwiki directory that contains the following single line:
<?php include('pmwiki.php');"
Failure to heed this advice cost me a month or two of broken wiki when I upgraded and got too busy to troubleshoot.
Dual Monitors on OS X Leopard
Dual Monitors on OS X Leopard
Use when giving presentations to keep your annotations on the laptop and the slides on the public screen. I think.
Use when giving presentations to keep your annotations on the laptop and the slides on the public screen. I think.
Are You Taking Advantage of Web 2.0? - New York Times
Are You Taking Advantage of Web 2.0? - New York Times: "But you'll gain trust, goodwill and positive attention. You'll put a human face on your company. And you'll learn stuff about your customers that you wouldn't have discovered any other way."
Are You Taking Advantage of Web 2.0? - New York Times
Are You Taking Advantage of Web 2.0? - New York Times: "The audience loved that one; within seconds, there were 132 responses on the screen in a huge, scrolling list. 'Not enough money.' 'Don't understand it.' 'No technical resources.' 'Not enough manpower.' 'No visible return on investment.' 'Fear of ridicule.' 'Fear of slander.' 'Fear of permanence.' 'Fear of the public running amok.'
The fears are rational enough: over and over again, we've all seen blog comments devolve into juvenile, offensive bickering, backstabbing and grandstanding.
Even during my early blogging days, The Times's blogs didn't have comments. And yet, as several of my own readers wrote: Without comments, a blog is not a blog at all. It's just a Web page—Web 1.0.
The solution, of course, was moderation."
The fears are rational enough: over and over again, we've all seen blog comments devolve into juvenile, offensive bickering, backstabbing and grandstanding.
Even during my early blogging days, The Times's blogs didn't have comments. And yet, as several of my own readers wrote: Without comments, a blog is not a blog at all. It's just a Web page—Web 1.0.
The solution, of course, was moderation."
Web 2.0 and New Media Definitions - New Comm Biz - New media strategies for business
Web 2.0 and New Media Definitions - New Comm Biz - New media strategies for business: "Web 2.0 seems to be kind of an amorphous, nebulous entity. Everyone seems to have a different definition and no two are the same. Some even go as far to say that it doesn’t exist. VCs seem to be convinced of web 2.0’s existence however, and have proven so with their wallets."
Friday, March 21
Thursday, March 20
Friday, March 7
Monday, March 3
Friday, February 22
Tuesday, February 19
Tuesday, January 29
Tool Use Is Just a Trick of the Mind -- Balter 2008 (128): 2 -- ScienceNOW
Tool Use Is Just a Trick of the Mind -- Balter 2008 (128): 2 -- ScienceNOW: "Don't take that hammer for granted. Using tools may seem like second nature, but only a few animals can master the coordination and mental sophistication required. So how did primates learn to use tools in the first place? A new study in monkeys suggests that the brain's trick is to treat tools as just another body part."
Oooh, this is so activity theory!
Oooh, this is so activity theory!
Monday, January 28
Monday, January 14
With friends like these ... Tom Hodgkinson on the politics of the people behind Facebook | Technology | The Guardian
With friends like these ... Tom Hodgkinson on the politics of the people behind Facebook | Technology | The Guardian: "And does Facebook really connect people? Doesn't it rather disconnect us, since instead of doing something enjoyable such as talking and eating and dancing and drinking with my friends, I am merely sending them little ungrammatical notes and amusing photos in cyberspace, while chained to my desk? A friend of mine recently told me that he had spent a Saturday night at home alone on Facebook, drinking at his desk. What a gloomy image. Far from connecting us, Facebook actually isolates us at our workstations."
Wednesday, January 9
How Hot Did The Jet Fuel Heat The World Trade Center?
How Hot Did The Jet Fuel Heat The World Trade Center?: "'In the mid-1990s British Steel and the Building Research Establishment performed a series of six experiments at Cardington to investigate the behavior of steel frame buildings. These experiments were conducted in a simulated, eight-story building. Secondary steel beams were not protected. Despite the temperature of the steel beams reaching 800-900� C (1,500-1,700� F) in three of the tests (well above the traditionally assumed critical temperature of 600� C (1,100� F), no collapse was observed in any of the six experiments.'"
Tuesday, January 8
Monday, January 7
Gates bids farewell to tech gathering - MarketWatch
Gates bids farewell to tech gathering - MarketWatch: "In particular, he predicted that a key element in the next decade will be 'natural-user interface,' in which consumers interface with their devices in more natural ways. He even mentioned the iPhone - the iconic touch-screen wireless phone introduced last year by longtime Microsoft rival Apple Inc. (AAPL:
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